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:looking beyond disaster Other women of note: ��� Coralee Winn: Co-founder of the GapFiller who create temporary uses in vacant sites. ��� Kaila Colbin: Co-founder of Ministry of Awesome. ��� Arihia Bennett: CEO of Te Rnanga o Ngi Tahu and has been the CEO of the Whanau Ora lead entity for the South Island, leading a range of recovery specific interventions for the community. ��� Stefanie Rixecker: Deputy Vice Chancellor External Relations at Lincoln University has been working hard on how Lincoln can recover post EQ. Stefanie is the former Chair of Amnesty International. ��� Rebecca May: a self-professed hippie, Rebecca is doing community organising in New Brighton for a community led planning process and a pop-up precinct in the somewhat decrepit Brighton business district. ��� Vicki Buck is brokering solutions all over the place and occasionally having people yell out car windows that she should be mayor again! bombshell to people who weren���t prepared for the announcement that their child���s school was to close. This has had an impact on many of the children as well. Everyone believes there has to be change but communities need to be given the tools to make a real contribution to the decision and to be a trusted partner in that process. The recovery process itself is an opportunity to build resilience ��� a term which is not always used appropriately ��� which doesn���t just mean the capacity to face up to and cope with adversity, but also the capacity to bounce back, or ideally, bounce forward, quickly. That is why empowerment is so important. What time, costs and resources has this work consumed? The only cost is the political pressure that is brought to bear on those who speak out with an alternative view. That pales into insignificance against those who feel that they have been abandoned to the mercies of the multinational insurers, the complexity of EQC���s requirements to apportion claims against multiple events and poor communication about the state of the land ��� red zone and TC3 in particular. Or those who have lost six-figure sums in equity. How are you ensuring the rebuild will create an improved Christchurch? By being optimistic. I hope to be the Minister of Canterbury Earthquake Recovery in the future and to provide an independent layer of governance for the recovery authority, which will help ensure a separation between the recovery process and the government. Re-establishing the democratic role of local and regional government will be a priority, along with a requirement for CERA and the councils to engage with affected communities in a meaningful way. An example of positive community engagement can be found in the response of the Waimakariri District Council which has been outstanding. 18 | www.h e rmagaz i n e . c o. n z Di Lucas Director, Lucas Associates. Landscape architect and landscape planner. When a local cafe found it would cost $150k for foundations for a 2-storey, 200 m�� building, and thus unaffordable, Di Lucas investigated further. Earlier this year she hosted a very successful workshop of 60 experts from around and beyond New Zealand, primarily geotech, structural engineers and architects, to explore ���Building Affordably on Soft Ground���. Alternative methods emerged with hollow timber piles at a third of the cost. Building lightly on the land, with foundations extended above ground level to enable access to adjust floors following any future tilt, was identified as appropriate. Where were you on 22 February, 2011? In my studio, Marokapara in Manchester Street, where ceilings, lighting structures, shelves and a chimney fell, but the building survived. We quickly went and checked on neighbours. I parked my car out in the clear as a neighbours��� refuge through the following aftershocks. We were grabbed and hugged by strangers fleeing up Manchester Street from collapsing buildings, including the PGC. What have you personally done to aid the Christchurch rebuild? I was one of the only people left in the street. It was eerie. Once outside the cordon, I put out a local notice to ask if people wanted to meet and discuss renewal. Surprisingly 55 people turned up! I named the area Peterborough Village Pita Kaik and an incorporated society was formed. The village area is half residential and half commercial. Further workshops saw more people gather, a database, website www. peterboroughvillage.org.nz and Facebook established. We contributed to iterations of the Central City Plan. Our 1995 ecosystem mapping for the City articulated the wetland character that naturally existed here. Post-quake we noticed the pattern of local destruction closely followed the pattern of streams mapped for the city���s 1850 plan. This created considerable interest. Explaining the evident rupture of natural levees to streams long since piped away has helped people understand the damage. I have provided presentations to various communities to help them understand something of the past and to help in visioning an enriched future. With libraries out, we uploaded useful documents to www.lucasassociates.co.nz. In your opinion, what, if any, benefits have come about through this natural disaster? A greater respect for natural systems and a greater understanding of the nature of the land beneath the city. The opportunity to reorganise spaces, buildings and movement patterns, to rebuild more sustainably, more community friendly and to re-think and renew our city as a model in the world.